Dr Christopher Westoby C.D.Westoby@hull.ac.uk
Programme Director, MA Creative Writing (Online)
Dr Christopher Westoby C.D.Westoby@hull.ac.uk
Programme Director, MA Creative Writing (Online)
Dr Jo Metcalf J.Metcalf@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in American Studies & Criminology
Dr Helen Nichols Helen.Nichols@hull.ac.uk
Reader in Criminology
‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing (2025)
Journal Article
Nichols, H., Metcalf, J., Earle, F., & Fréour, L. (2025). ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing. Incarceration, 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241310334Prison staff experience multiple stressors in the course of their working lives and existing literature consistently emphasises the negative wellbeing implications of prison work. There is a gap in existing research regarding the types of wellbeing s... Read More about ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing.
Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing (2023)
Book
Metcalf, J., Nichols, H., Westoby, C., & Clement, J. (Eds.). (2023). Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing. Butcher's Dog PublishingThis anthology of writings stemmed from a University of Hull project that offered bespoke creative writing workshops to staff at both HMP Hull and HMP Manchester. The team wanted to support employees in a role that government and academic research re... Read More about Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing.
Prison Officers & Creative Writing - Final Report (2023)
Report
Freour, L., & Earle, F. (2023). Prison Officers & Creative Writing - Final Report. Centre for Human Factors
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